(This is an excellent Injury Law Article by Abraham, Watkins and Friend . This article is approved by Personal Injury Lawyer David Slepkow)

While a swimming pool is a great place for families and friends to have summertime fun, dangers can lurk beneath its surface. In Port Arthur, Texas, a man called the police when he found an unusual intruder swimming in his pool: a five-foot-long alligator.

When the police and other local agencies refused to fish the gator out of the pool, the man turned to the owner of an alligator-focused theme park and restaurant in nearby Beaumont. The theme-park owner safely wrestled the alligator out of the pool.

Most swimming pool hazards aren’t nearly as obvious, but they can be just as dangerous. Fifty children have drowned already in Texas this year, and the summer has just begun. A recent drowning involved a toddler who walked out of his home and climbed the ladder to an aboveground pool. Although he was only gone for 10 minutes, he had drowned by the time he was found.

Safety experts say home swimming pools are especially dangerous for young children. Nearly a third of all fatalities among children from one to four years old are caused by drowning. For every child who dies from drowning, another four receive emergency care for submersion injuries. Those injuries can cause catastrophic injuries, including brain damage, resulting in long-term disabilities.

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